Soldier of the South with Edward Hagerty
Key Battles of American History
Key Battles of American History
4.6 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this episode, James interviews historian Edward Hagerty about his new book Soldier of the South: Lieutenant General Richard H. Anderson at War and Peace. Richard Anderson was one of the highest-ranking generals in the Confederate Army, but he is little known today. Despite this relative anonymity, Anderson's life and career are fascinating and merit a retelling. In this interview, Hagerty gives James a brief overview of Anderson's compelling story.
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| 0:00.0 | War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding |
| 0:10.7 | right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its size, |
| 0:17.1 | and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history. |
| 0:23.9 | Welcome to Key Battles of American History, |
| 0:26.7 | a podcast in which we discuss American history |
| 0:28.9 | through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars. |
| 0:32.7 | Here is your host, James Early. |
| 0:43.4 | Music host, James Early. Hello and welcome to a special episode of Key Battles of American History. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm your host, James Early. |
| 0:49.1 | As always, now, listener, I would like to do an exercise with you. |
| 0:53.5 | I would like for you to think in your mind of five Confederate generals. |
| 0:59.5 | Think about, come up with the names of five Confederate generals. |
| 1:03.4 | All right, you got it. |
| 1:04.6 | So I'm guessing almost everybody said Robert E. Lee. |
| 1:07.8 | Probably almost everybody said Stonewall Jackson. |
| 1:12.4 | Probably most of you said James Longstreet, Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Bell Hood. If you're a fan of Gettysburg, |
| 1:18.3 | maybe you came up with George Pickett, maybe you came up with Jubal Early or John Hunt Morgan |
| 1:24.7 | or who knows, Beauregard, Bragg, so many different ones you could come up with |
| 1:30.5 | Joseph Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, and so on. But I would be willing to bet that almost none of |
| 1:36.7 | you came up with Richard Anderson. So Richard Anderson was actually a pretty high-ranking Confederate |
| 1:43.8 | General. |
| 1:44.3 | By the end of the war, he was a lieutenant general. |
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